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ERIC Number: EJ969951
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Jan
Pages: 7
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-1537-5749
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Equipping Teachers to Infuse Technology
Schrock, Kathy
District Administration, v48 n1 p57-63 Jan 2012
On a district-wide professional development day, a consultant presents to an auditorium of 250 teachers and conducts follow-up sessions with smaller groups throughout the day. The event is chock-full of information, and the teachers feel good about the resources and skills they have learned. The consultant departs at the end of the day knowing she has done her job. However, the teachers do not get the time to reflect and practice the skills learned, and their excitement about the new information soon wanes. If only they had had access to Web-based resources for supporting technology professional development. The tools available for both presenting and continuing the collaboration between colleagues and the presenter are plentiful. There are many models of technology professional development from which districts can select to make the professional development richer and more useful for teachers. There is also an unintended benefit of using online technologies to provide teacher professional development. A virtual consultant presenting to a group can save a district travel costs. In addition, demonstrating the synchronous technologies used to present and conducting follow-up collaboration using online tools from a virtual consultant can help teachers understand how useful this technology is for supporting student learning. Once they see the possibilities as part of their own professional development, they will devise creative ideas for bringing experts into their classroom using Skype or Adobe ConnectNow or contributing to a project-based learning project in ePals. Bringing professional development to teachers using online technologies, including having participants fully engaged with microphones and webcams, will make them comfortable with the options and processes and allow them to extend online technologies into their own classroom. (Contains 17 online resources.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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